PLAY!
Playing together as a family lightens the mood, puts a smile on everyone's face, and creates memories. For stepfamilies the added bonus is it bonds you together. Playing games and having a little fun competition helps to break down walls and connect you. You can read a book together. Learn to play an instrument. Or go on a family hike. Sure there are going to be times when not everyone wants to engage in every activity so find what they do like and take it one day at a time.
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Playing together as a family lightens the mood, puts a smile on everyone's face, and creates memories. For stepfamilies the added bonus is it bonds you together. Playing games and having a little fun competition helps to break down walls and connect you. You can read a book together. Learn to play an instrument. Or go on a family hike. Sure there are going to be times when not everyone wants to engage in every activity so find what they do like and take it one day at a time.
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Ron Deal
Ron L. Deal is one of the most widely read and viewed experts on blended families in the country. He is Director of FamilyLife Blended® for FamilyLife®, founder of Smart Stepfamilies™, and the author and Consulting Editor of the Smart Stepfamily Series of books including the bestselling Building Love Together in Blended Families: The 5 Love Languages® and Becoming Stepfamily Smart (with Dr. Gary Chapman), The Smart Stepfamily: 7 Steps to a Healthy Family, and Preparing to Blend. Ron is a licensed marriage and family therapist, popular conference speaker, and host of the FamilyLife Blended podcast. He and his wife, Nan, have three sons and live in Little Rock, Arkansas. Learn more at FamilyLife.com/blended.
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Ron Deal
Ron L. Deal is one of the most widely read and viewed experts on blended families in the country. He is Director of FamilyLife Blended® for FamilyLife®, founder of Smart Stepfamilies™, and the author and Consulting Editor of the Smart Stepfamily Series of books including the bestselling Building Love Together in Blended Families: The 5 Love Languages® and Becoming Stepfamily Smart (with Dr. Gary Chapman), The Smart Stepfamily: 7 Steps to a Healthy Family, and ...more
Here’s a not so secret quality of strong families. They have fun together.
Ron: Here’s a not-so-secret quality of strong families. They have fun together.
Announcer: For FamilyLife Blended®, here’s Ron Deal.
Ron: Like I said, it’s not a big secret but it’s worth talking about. Playing together as a family lightens the mood, puts a smile on everyone’s face, and it creates memories. For stepfamilies there’s the bonus impact. It bonds you together. Playing games and having a little fun competition helps to break down walls and connect you.
You know there are a lot of ways of doing this. You can read a book together. Learn to play an instrument. Or go on a family hike. Sure there’s going to be time when not everyone wants to engage in every activity so find what they do like and take it one day at a time. As much as you can get out there and play! For FamilyLife Blended I’m Ron Deal.
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